Fatigue and Wonder Collapse in a Heap Together

My morning began finishing the office box packing I had been too busy to complete yesterday. The moving fellows showed up half an hour early, loaded our boxes and furniture into the van, and
proceeded to smoothly move us into our new offices. The project manager for the move regaled us with stories of celebrity moves and foreign travel to show people in exotic places how to assemble modular office furniture. He really knew his stuff, though, and guided the two less experienced fellows through the paces sans scratch or undue sweat.

My desk is now happily installed, my boxes are ready to be transferred back onto shelves and cabinets, and I have that feel of someone who worked a good day's work.

I still haven't figured out the best way from home to office. I am one of those people who is congenitally on a side road, using leading
away from the most purposeful path. I'm eager to become one of those people who knows the way home, and often takes it.

On the drive home, red stalks towered above the small yucca they planted along the freeway.
Fields of Queen Anne's lace here, there wildflowers comprised of stalks from which white and yellow bells hung. A small bird attacked a crow as I drove by the building on which they both perched. Crows are no respecter of small birds and their eggs, so it is not an odd sight.
I'll never forget, though, the time in a Rancho Santa Ana garden in Claremont, California when a huge hawk was harassed by a pair of crows,
trying to drive him away. They maneuvered
like little fighter planes pounding away at a bomber. They had to return to base, though, when, of all things, another hawk came up to provide "reinforcements". Life is one big air force, and I am on the ground crew. I'm a conscientious objector in the bird wars, anyway...

Gerbil Theology

1. Existential gerbilism
a. every gerbil stands alone before god;
b. alternatively, every gerbil agonizes
that there is no god, and being a gerbil
is all there is;
c. some few gerbils achieve a radical
freedom from their fears, and become
fully actualized gerbils, chewing wood
unfettered by fear.

2. Gerbil Process Theology
a. God is not a substance or being,
like a gerbil is, but is instead
an endless becoming, less a statement
that I AM a God of gerbils than
a statement that God Becomes,
rather like an endlessly
growing Habitrail.

3. Gerbil New Thought
a. If a gerbil becomes one with what we
call Creative Rodent Mind, all manners
of seeds and nuts may thereby result
from the force of positive thinking;
b. There is no illness, merely mistaken
gerbils.

4. Eastern Gerbil Mysticism
a. Gerbils are on a wheel of life,
which spins round and round,
through their many rotations;
b. Eventually, a gerbil may break
the cycle of pellets and droppings, and merge
with a great oversoul, which we call
Atgerbil;
c. All whiskers are clouded by desire
for sunflower seeds, like a mirror by dust.

5. Fundamentalist Gerbility
a. The holy scriptures are literally
and inerrantly true in every sense,
especially when they admonish gerbils
to "be fruitful and multiply";
b. Gerbils are indeed stewards of the
earth's lesser creatures;
c. If two gerbils started on the ark,
how many were there in forty days
and forty nights (one reason why
actuarial science is a required
part of the master's of divinity,
gerbil division, degree program).

6. Baha'gerbilism
a. The earth is one country, and
gerbils are everywhere;
b. Each prophet speaks a message
to gerbils appropriate to their
time and place;
c. If all gerbils would simply
join hands, there's be a heck of
a lot of gerbils linked end to end.

7. Unitarian/unigerbilism
a. We must all tolerate the way each
gerbil chews its seeds;
b. We may worship with gerbils of
all faiths, creeds, and cages,
so long as no gerbil requires one creed
from another;
c. When gerbils from faiths that do
not permit remarriage after divorce
are in need, we have a chapel ready.